Dinas Powis
TownTown in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Dinas Powis is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dinas Powis add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 60% of people in Dinas Powis live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dinas Powis compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dinas Powis safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dinas Powis at a rate of 43.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 42 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dinas Powis.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (152), other crime (82) and anti-social behaviour (36).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dinas Powis was 45.3 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Dinas Powis, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dinas Powis has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Dinas Powis
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vale of Glamorgan 006A | 1,509 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.7% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 006B | 1,520 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 006C | 2,142 | 80.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 006D | 1,600 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.6% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 006E | 1,445 | 23.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.8% |
Your MP
- Stephen DoughtyLabour (Co-op)MP for Cardiff South and Penarth
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Dinas Powis1
Middle areas in Dinas Powis1
Towns near Dinas Powis6
Dinas Powis in brief
Dinas Powis is a town in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
About 8,041 people lived in Dinas Powis in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £344,000 in 2025 across 119 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 43.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dinas Powis was £344,000 in 2025.
Dinas Powis had 7,891 usual residents at the census.
About 60% of people in Dinas Powis live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dinas Powis, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.